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Old 01-09-2017, 05:09 PM   #19 (permalink)
EPOCH6
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Originally Posted by JGuy Grungeman View Post
I want to get into bluegrass, since I like country. I just can't.
I have a hard time getting into pure bluegrass as well but there are some absolutely beautiful examples of country albums written by musicians trained in bluegrass where the two genres mix together very nicely.

First that comes to mind is Doug Dillard & Gene Clark's Fantastic Expedition collaboration album. Fantastic musicianship and songwriting front to back. Seamless mixture of ideas from country, rock, folk, and bluegrass.

Great road songs.



Doug Dillard was great at incorporating bluegrass styles into easier to digest mixtures of more popular styles. So you end up with the tones and atmospheres of bluegrass AND the vocal/melodic hooks that most bluegrass doesn't care about.

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There's 3 reason why the Rolling Stones are better. I'm going to list them here. 1. Jimi Hendrix from Rolling Stones was a better guitarist then Jimmy Page 2. The bassist from Rolling Stones isn't dead 3. Rolling Stobes wrote Stairway to Heaven and The Ocean so we all know they are superior here.
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